Hoisting apparatus.



- Patented Feb. 6, I900. F. E. usnzoe & F. MARTIN.

HOISTING APPARATUS.

(Application filed Oct 7, 1899.)

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(No Model.)

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F. E. HEHZOG 8. F. L. MARTIN.

' HOISTING APPARATUS.

(Application filed Oct. 7, 1899.) (No Model.) 2 Shuts-Sheet 2.

W itnesses. Inventors UNirnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDRIOK E. HERZOG AND FRANK L. MARTIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HOISTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,845, dated February 6, 1900.

Application filed October 7, 1899. Serial No. 732,841. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FREDRIOK E. HERZOG and FRANK L. MARTIN, citizens of the United States, residing at New York, (Brooklyn,) in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hoisting Apparatus, of which the following is a full and complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to hoisting apparatus; and the object thereof is to provide an apparatus of this class which shall possess features of adjustment and adaptability particularly suiting it for household and similar uses.

Our invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as described and claimed in the followingspecification,of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which like reference characters denote like parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of our improved hoisting apparatus with the parts in collapsed, contracted, orinoperative position; Fig. 2, a side elevation thereof with the parts in extended or operative position; Fig. 3, a plan view of a portion thereof on an enlarged scale; Fig. 4, a partially-sectioned edge view of a portion of Figs. 1 and 2 on an enlarged scale; Figs. 5 and 6, enlarged side views of still further details of Figs. 1 and 2; and Fig. 7, an enlarged side view, partly in section, of a still further detail of Figs. 1 and 2.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, we have shown at a portion of the wall of a cellar or area way of a dwellinghouse or other building and at 11 in dotted lines the grating or other closure which normally covers said cellar-way. I

In the practice of our invention we provide a vertical tubular main support 11, which is secured in position by means of keepers or straps 12, which engage said wall, and a supplemental support consisting of a cylindrical rod or tube 13 is passed slidably into said main support 11, being capable of housing therein, as shown in Fig. 1. The proportions of said supports 11 and 13 are such that when adjusted as shown in Fig. 1 the supplemental I support 13 does not project above the level of the grating 11.

Pivoted, as at 14, adjacent the top of the main support 11 is a catch 15, provided with a hooked end 15 and a weighted end 16, whereby the hooked end 15 is normally maintained in an elevated position. The supplemental support 13 is notched, as at 17 in Fig. 6, adjacent its lower end, and the hooked end 15 is bifurcated and adapted to operate in connection with said notched portion 17 to maintain the support 13 in elevated position, as shown in Fig. 2. A cord 18 is connected with the weighted end 16 of the catch 15 and also with the support 13, and by means thereof the catch 15 may be operated-to allow the support 13 to slide down into the support 11, as in Fig. 1. A shaft 19 is loosely mounted in the support 13, and a keeper 20 connected therewith, and fixed thereto is a pulley 21, provided at one side with a ratchet 22, and a pawl 23 is pivoted to the support 13 and operates in connection with said ratchet. The shaft 19 is provided at its outer end with a crank 24, by which it may be manipulated.

right angles thereto to form an arm 25, and the keeper 20 and shaft 19 are arranged upon the vertical plane of the arm 25, as shown in Fig. 3, and the arm 25 is provided witharing 26, in which is fastened one end of a rope or cable 27, the other end of which is connected with the pulley 21, as at 28, being passed through an opening therein and knotted at the end, as shown in Fig. at. The cable 27 operates in connection with the pulley 21, and operatively mounted thereon is a pulleyblock 29, provided with a hook 30. Connected loosely with the wall 10, as at 31, is a hook 32, which operates in connection with a downwardly-directed slot 33 in the support 13, as clearly shown in Fig. 7.

In the practice of our invention the'parts are when not in use in the position shown in Fig. 1, the support 13 being telescoped into the support 11. Then it is desired to use the hoisting apparatus,the support 13 is raised into the position shown in Fig. 2, being upwardly-projected sufficiently to allow the deposit thereby of an ash-can 31 or other device The upper end of the support 13 is bent at the support member 11 at an acute angle to 8o upon the pavement or upon a plane level with the grating 11. The can 34 is suspended from the hook 30, as shown in Fig. 2, and the crank 24 is operated to wind the cable 27 upon the pulley 21, gradually raising said can 34. The catch maintains the support 13 in elevated position, and when it is desired to lower said support the cord 18 is pulled upon,freeing the catch end 15 from the grooved portion 17 of the support 13. The hook 32 prevents rotation of the support 13, and this is also detached therefrom before lowering the said support.

It is evident that the construction and arrangement of parts above specified are not indispensable to the embodiment of our invention, but that many variations may be made therefrom without departing from the scope of our invention.

Having fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In an apparatus of the class described, a support consisting of two telescoping members one of which is provided with a grooved portion and the other with a pivoted catch provided at one end with a bifurcated portion which engages said grooved portion, and at the other end with a weight and a cord connected with the weighted end of said catch and with the grooved member of said support.

2. The herein-described hoisting apparatus, comprising an extensible support consisting of two members, one of which is provided at one side with a pulley, and with a projecting and horizontally-deflected end, a rope or cablc connected with said deflected end and said pulley and with which the article to be'hoisted is connected, the vertical plane of the axle of said pulley being at an acute angle to the vertical plane of said horizontal end of the member, means for preventing rotary relative movement of said support members, and means for operating said pulley, substantially as shown and described.

3. In an apparatus of the class described, a

support provided with a projecting and horizontally-deflected portion, a pulley connected with one side of said support, a rope or cable connected with said pulley and with said defiected portion, the relative construction and arrangement of parts being such that the ver tical plane of the axle of said pulley is at an acute angle tothe vertical plane of said horizontal end of the support, substantially as shown and described.

4:. In an apparatus of the class described, a support consisting of two telescoping members, one of which is provided with a grooved portion, and the other with a pivoted weighted catch provided at one end with a bifurcated portion which engages said grooved portion, and connected with said grooved member by means of flexible operating means, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have signed our names, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 6th day of October, 1899.

FREDRICK E. HERZOG. FRANK L. MARTIN. \Vitnesses:

RAYMOND J. BLAKESLEE, V. M. VosLnn. 

